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13 Cards in this Set
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Fundamental properties of living things
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Cellular organization, Sensitivity, Growth, Development, Reproduction, Regulation, Homeostasis, and Heredity
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Reducing atmosphere
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an atmospheric condition in which oxidation is prevented by removal of oxygen and other oxidizing gases or vapors
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The Linnaean Hierarchy
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kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
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Genus (pl genera)
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a taxonomic group that ranks below a family and above a species
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Binomial name
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the scientific name of a species that consists of two parts, the genus name and the specific species name
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Taxonomy
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the science of classifying living things
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Taxon
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A classification level
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Domain Archaea
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in the three-domain system of taxonomy, the group that contains on the Archaea, a highly diverse group of unicellular prokaryotes
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Domain Bacteria
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in the three-domain system of taxonomy, the group that contains only the Bacteria, a vast group of unicellular prokaryotes
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Domain Eukarya
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in the three-domain system of taxonomy, the group that contains eukaryotic organisms including protists, fungi, plants, and animals
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Horizontal gene transfer (HGT)
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the passing of genes laterally between species; more prevalent very early in the history of life
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Endosymbiosis
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theory that proposes that eukaryotic cells evolved from a symbiosis between different species of prokaryotes
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Four eukaryotic kingdoms
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Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
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